On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:53:19PM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) writes: > > > "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:05:14PM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > >>> Further, echo "" > file will create a file with one character > >>> (newline), not an empty file. > >> > >> Yeah. The right way should be echo -n > file I suppose. > > > > echo > file will do. > > On second thoughts, yeah. echo -n is what's needed.
Why do you need echo at all? Just ">file" will do. Why bother with echo and wondering whether it supports the -n option, etc.? Sankar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
